Medical genetics material

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Scope and Content

Includes three separate record series:

Research and reports, including material relating to research grants held by Ferguson-Smith, chiefly from the Medical Research Council;
Correspondence and memoranda relating to the development of the field of medical genetics as an academic study and as clinical practice, including accomodation for Ferguson-Smith's department culminating in the opening of the Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics in 1981;
Development of medical genetics at Cambridge, including correspondence regarding the proposal for a Centre of Meducal Genetics at Cambridge.

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Chronological within record series. The files described below are arranged into separate folders which contain loose pages of correspondence and other papers, articles, reports, memos, photos and magazines.

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